Development of coastal and estuarine environmental data sharing using XML

In each oceanographic observation and research, they independently acquire most of necessitated data. In this situation, they have carried on that some collaborative projects with data sharing by cooperative observations. However, each project employs independent data sharing method. Consequently, if this independency continues, it may be difficult to connect more widely these data shared within each project. Hence, in this research, we develop the oceanographic data standard using XML (extensible markup language) followed by ISO/TC211.